Deseret Evening News | 1906-04-25 | Page 8 | Postmen on Snowshoes

POSTMEN ON SNOWSHOES Strength th and courage are needed by bythe bytho the tho men employed In delivering tho malls In the tho Hock mountains In winter the tho undertaking Is and lInd dangerous Sometimes the tho carrier Is 19 wept swept away by n 11 and months roll by b before the tho bravo brae fellow tellow and tho mall pouch are found About fifty Oft of those mountain carriers risk theM lives dally doll on the tho dangerous trails In Colorado carrying the tho malls on Oll snowshoes to the tho most remote mining camps I Only hardy men of resource can do this work for IIo pounds of letters papers and packages uge become very vel heavy and um burdensome In climb climbing climbIng ing the tho mountains These carriers know tho peaks peul 8 passes trails ns well as aK the tho city carriers do the streets and numbers of pf their districts On reaching the summit tho carrier straddles the pole and placing his hili snowshoes close cloe together begins he his descent Ono to tho work will BO jO down the tho mountains with the swiftness of the wind n mile a II min minute minute ute Hut But It Is not so 10 with the tho ono olle who Is Inexperienced for out slips slip tho guid guiding guidIng ing pole up como come the snowshoes and tho unfortunate carrier mall bag and andall all goes goe rolling down the tho mountains In Instead stead of sliding down them